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This is not a comforting book -- it is a book about disturbing issues that are urgently important today and enduringly critical for the future. It rejects both merit and historical redress as principles for guiding public policy. It shows how peace movements have led to war and to needless casualties in those wars. It argues that equality is neither right nor wrong, but meaningless.
The Quest for Cosmic Justiceshows how confused conceptions of justice end up promoting injustice, how confused conceptions of equality end up promoting inequality, and how the tyranny of social visions prevents many people from confronting the actual consequences of their own beliefs and policies. Those consequences include the steady and dangerous erosion of the fundamental principles of freedom -- and the quiet repeal of the American revolution.Thomas Sowellis a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute and the author ofA Personal Odyssey, The Vision of the Anointed, Ethnic America,and several other books. His essays have appeared inThe New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, Forbes,andFortuneand are syndicated in 150 newspapers. He lives in Stanford, California.
Contents
Preface
I The Quest for Cosmic Justice
II The Mirage of Equality
III The Tyranny of Visions
IV The Quiet Repeal of the American Revolution
Notes
IndexJay NordlingerNational ReviewThe burnished product of a lifetime of thinking, arguing, refining, and -- in essence -- getting it straight.David Boaz author ofLibertarianism: A Primerand editor ofThe Libertarian ReaderNo one should pronounce on justice or equality again without grappling with Thomas Sowell's powerful argument. In this book, reflecting a lifetime of wide-ranging research and careful reflection, Sowell makes us understand the difference between results and processes, between cosmic justice and traditional justice,lc(
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